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Reserve ratios tighten offshore renminbi control

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CHINA

The move will have a significant immediate impact on the cost of capital in the offshore renminbi market. More importantly, it highlights the difficult balance being struck by…

The central banks face an increasingly complex dilemma

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INTERNATIONAL

With inflation lasting longer than expected, worries about the impact on banking may limit the scope for more rate hikes. Equally, a pause could undermine central banks'…

Prospects for the global economy to end-2017

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PROSPECTS H2 2017

PROSPECTS: H2 2017: Global economy

UK financial markets review is prelude to global push

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UNITED KINGDOM

The year-long official review was intended to restore trust in the wholesale fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) markets. The FEMR embraces a more forward-looking…

Risks outweigh rewards for very large EU bank mergers

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INTERNATIONAL

The 2008-09 financial crisis led to consolidation of the EU banking sector through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of mostly domestic banks. A few EU countries have highly…

Prospects for the global economy to end-2020

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PROSPECTS 2020 H2

COVID-19 dominates the scenarios for the next six months, which range from a swift sharp recovery to another dramatic fall in activity. Policy responses, financial markets…

Swiss sovereign money vote points up bank reform

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INTERNATIONAL

The Vollgeld (sovereign money) proposal, which claimed to make the banking system safer by preventing commercial banks creating money through requiring thems to keep 100% of their…

Beijing will move cautiously on exchange rate

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CHINA

China's exchange rate policy.

Risk of full-blown Turkish currency crisis is rising

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TURKEY

Despite dramatic depreciation of the lira since early March, the TCMB is likely to continue cutting its benchmark one-week repo rate, now at 8.75%, as it tries to mitigate the…

Central banks battle inflation and political headwinds

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INTERNATIONAL

With greater-than-usual uncertainty about the course of inflation and economic growth, decisions taken now by central banks will have a crucial impact on longer-term growth…